Upnor Castle – 31st October 2015 (Kym)

Upnor Castle ghost hunt 31st October 2015
Rochester, Kent.

The team had all been looking forward to this event most of the year – the last time I had been to Upnor Castle was nearly 10 years ago on a similar paranormal night. It had not been visited since by any other paranormal group. When we arrived, and on chatting to the staff, the spirit activity had increased considerably in the last week – were the spirits excited about our visit as much as us?
I started the night with Kerry in the tunnel doing a human pendulum. The first spirit that came through was male, John, a British soldier and was murdered here in the 1600’s. His brother was Peter, and later his mother Jane joined us.
With my second group again we had the spirit of John, but different from before. Although he was a British soldier, he had died from typhoid. We also had the spirit of a Dutch soldier who was captured and kept here as a prisoner. He was a surgeon and operated on the Dutch prisoners. When he died he was thrown in the River Medway. He had fell in love with a Dutch woman here, however she had married a British soldier, but was murdered by her husband.
With the last group, who were all friends, several spirits came through but were mostly connected to the guests.

In the second half of the evening I was working in the Barracks Building, with the assistance of Wayne. We were using dowsing rods and pendulums to communicate with the spirits. The staff were keen to stay with us as this is where they had been experiencing lots of different things in the last week. On entering the building and walking up the stairs, Wayne felt a could touch to his neck, which he also felt in the corner of the far upstairs room. When using his pendulum to communicate with the spirit, it was a female energy here that had touched him. I was with Sarah (staff) and were talking to a male spirit using dowsing rods. He was a British Officer aged 25. Sarah wanted to know his name, so we both asked spirit to try telling us. I had the name Terry – short for Terrence – Sarah had the name Edward. Spirit confirmed his name was Edward Terrence. Edward also confirmed the experiences Sarah had had were all from him. Also another member of staff had seen a spirit previously, had quickly drawn a sketch of what she had seen, and Edward confirmed that was him. Whilst someone was sitting in a chair in the shop downstairs, she felt coldness on her lap as if someone was sitting there. Sarah also whilst standing on a trap door at the top of stairs, felt it try and lift up under her feet. On checking we could see it was impossible to lift up. I stood there and twice I felt a vibration under my foot when nobody else was moving. We could feel coldness in front of us too. Wayne then went to get his Rem pod and placed it on the trap door, and several times it went off. We tried to de-bunk it by moving/running on the stairs, opening/closing the door downstairs, but each time you had to do it with force to set the rem pod off, which we know no-one had done at that time.
An amazing night at Upnor Castle – can’t wait to return!